Fractal Development in JWildfire for Mac

I've been busy creating lots of fractals and thought I would share the development of 2 final fractals. This isn't a tutorial but a blog to show my fractal development to 2 final works.

Starting a Spiral Fractal

I used a "Spiral" fractal in JWildfire. A typical example of how they look are shown here. I choose one that I like the look of from the thumbnails on the left and start to adjust and change the variations and nonlinear parameters (on the right). Then I start to adjust the triangles by moving them, adjusting the sizes, rotating and scaling until I start to get something I like. They are usually nothing like the starting thumbnail.

The second image is where I start to get something I can work with. I continue to change the settings, drag round the triangles, maybe add a new transformation triangle and generally explore lots of options. This is a very addictive program for me. I love the nature of fractals and how I never know what the outcome will be. I love working like this with no expectations.

The start of my fractals, lots more to do here.

The following screenshots are some of the designs that I progressed through. I save a lot and then rename and delete most of them later. When I'm working on them and get something I like I save it and refine it by changing colour and adjusting position etc. Then I push it further and see what else I can get.

Development Image 1 - starting to get something here.

Development Image 2 - I've changed the colour on this one.

Development Image 3 - I really like this one may work on this later.

Development Image 4 - Image pushed further. I like this also.

Development Image 5 - It's difficult to abandon this one so I continue working on it.

Development Image 6 - Yes!

Before rendering I explored some more colour options. Rendering really takes some time on my old Mac as you can see from this screenshot.

JWildfire Renderer for 1 image - approx 2 hours done and another 1.5 hours to go.

I usually take the final .png files and take them into Photoshop to do a quick adjust on colour if needed. This is how the final images look. Large prints and items are available to buy on Fine Art America and Red Bubble. Both ship to the UK.

Lemon Lime © mforrester

Dreamy Pink © mforrester

Happy Christmas

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all my Family, Friends, Clients, Followers and … Everyone really.

I hope you all have a wonderful time!

All my love and best wishes.



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Twisted Targets

Twisted Targets

I'm working on a personal project at the moment, creating strange beings for archery and shooting practice. I'm really looking forward to receiving my prints and after trying them out, I will be extremely busy sending out lots of emails. Hopefully, I shall be selling these for Christmas. I've also set up a separate blog for these 'Twisted Targets' http://twisted-targets.blogspot.co.uk and I need to update my website. These are just great to shoot at :)

Orcs

I was asked if I could paint some Orc target faces for my local archery club. These will be put on dummies for next years Middle Earth show in Birmingham, but I'm sure once the kids at Hamstead Hall School get hold of them, they might have to print some more :) .

Orc Archery Target Faces

Summerhill Glen, Douglas, Isle of Man

Dolphin Rocks, Summerhill Glen.

I took some of my art materials with me whilst visiting the Isle of Man, and had the opportunity to create a couple of life drawings. I completed most of the work during my stay but added dark acrylic paint on my return. These two pieces are created using mixed media and consist of pen, graphite crayon, black watercolour pencil/paint and acrylic paint.

I really enjoyed creating these pieces and will certainly make time to do some more life drawing in September, when I visit the Lake District. This will be good experience as I haven't actually done any landscape drawing. I'm hoping to continue my exploration of mark making to create some new and interesting pieces.

Stairway, Summerhill Glen.

Prints of these images will be up for
sale shortly on my online shops.

Sneak Preview - Christmas Cards

Decorating the Tree

I've been designing some Christmas cards to target some companies and thought I would just give a sneak preview of one of them. I really like snowmen, so created a series of cards with this theme.  Acrylic paint, pen work and paper trees - all scanned in and finalised in Photoshop.